Speaking/workshop topics:
- The silent epidemic: Banishing Burnout, a matter of Balance
- Creating Innovative Environments - positioning creativity and innovation as a core value
- Transform your decision-making Spherical Thinking: The tool for better decisions, higher EQ and greater resilience
- Creativity & Innovation: The source of our social evolution!
NEW Banish Burnout - A matter of balance
In this keynote, Dr. Walton introduces Spherical Thinking™, a transformative process that combines intuitive and logical thought. Participants will learn to identify early-stage burnout not only in themselves but also in their friends, family and colleagues, and how to construct new neurological pathways that promote a balanced approach to problem-solving and emotional management. The session will be dynamic, ensuring audiences are engaged and equipped with practical strategies that can be implemented immediately.
Attendees will walk away with renewed energy and clearer strategies for maintaining wellness in their personal and professional lives. By applying the principles of Spherical Thinking™, they will improve their emotional intelligence, enhance relationships, and rekindle their motivation.
Workplace burnout has reached alarming levels, with 77% of U.S. professionals reporting symptoms, and even more alarming figures among millennials. Dr. André Walton, a renowned business coach and social psychologist, addresses this critical issue in his keynote, drawing upon his extensive experience as a Visiting Professor of Creativity and Entrepreneurship. His program, “Banish Burnout,” offers a distinctive approach that views burnout as a multifaceted challenge, distinct from mere stress.
Learning Objectives/Takeaways:
- Identify Early Warning Signs: Recognize early signs of burnout in oneself and colleagues to intervene effectively.
- Apply Spherical Thinking™: Use innovative techniques to develop new perspectives on challenges, fostering emotional resilience.
3. Promote Wellness Strategies: Implement actionable wellness strategies that lead to a sustainable work-life balance.
4. Enhance Collaboration: Cultivate better relationships at work and at home through shared understanding and enhanced emotional intelligence.
5. Boost Motivation and Productivity: Develop a personalized action plan to sustain energy levels and increase overall motivation.
Creating Innovative Environments
What influences how creative we are?
Is team work good for creativity?
How does stress impact innovation?
In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, creativity is no longer a luxury—it’s a leadership imperative. In this compelling keynote, Dr. André Walton explores how organizations can move beyond lip service and embed creativity as a core cultural value, not just a one-off initiative or brainstorming session.
Drawing on over two decades of research in organizational creativity and the neuroscience of innovation, Dr. Walton shares actionable strategies for designing environments that attract and retain creative minds, foster psychological safety, and unlock breakthrough thinking across all levels of an organization.
This talk is ideal for leaders, educators, and organizations ready to future-proof their culture by making creativity not just a tool—but a defining principle of how they operate and grow utilizing the full creative potential of employees.
Transformational Decision Making
Do we see more options when brainstorming?
What resources do we need for complex problems?
How does stress impact our problem solving?
In a world of increasing complexity, linear thinking falls short. Dr. André Walton's Spherical Thinking offers a revolutionary approach to decision-making. It embraces complexity, widens perspective, and leads to more resilient, creative, and emotional intelligence.
In this eye-opening keynote, breakout session or workout, Dr. Walton introduces Spherical Thinking as a multidimensional framework that helps move beyond binary choices and reactive strategies. Drawing on his expertise in creativity research, neuroscience, and social psychology, he equips audiences with tools to map problems from multiple angles, anticipate consequences, and see connections where others see chaos.
Ideal for leaders, strategists, and innovators, this session transforms how individuals and organizations think, decide, and lead—preparing them to thrive in a dynamic and increasingly complex, vibrant world.
Creativity and Innovation: Understanding the Past, Unlocks the Future
How did we get here?
Are creative people more prone to psychological problems?
Why does creativity seem to blossom at some times but not others?
In this fascinating presentation, Dr. André Walton, an internationally recognized expert in creativity and organizational design, addresses these questions and more, and takes the audience on a sweeping journey through the evolution of human creativity. From early societies to today’s complex digital age creativity has always been with us. Along the way, he unpacks critical questions that affect how we understand and harness creativity in our lives and organizations and shows us that we all had the power to think creatively once and what it means to regain that power.
Dr. André shows us that Creativity is the Source of our Social Evolution!
Learning Objectives/Takeaways:
- Cultivate an innovative climate: when creativity thrives organically, not only does innovation increase but staff happiness and well being increases.
- Identify and dismantle barriers to creative thinking: At work and at home being free to think creatively has nothing but positive influences on living and working.
3. Align leadership practices with values. Being allowed to make mistakes is the core of innovation. It also breeds accountability, emotional intelligence and the ability to take the initiative when needed.
4. Reframe failure as feedback. So-called 'failure' is the ultimate learning experience. With appropriate mentoring (as opposed to micromanagement), the feedback and guidance from errors develops the ultimate leadership skills.
Key takeaways include:
- Creating new thinking patterns: Breaking free from rigid, linear patterns of thought is the key to creative, innovative thinking, seeing more options and better decision making
- Using Spherical Thinking to navigate uncertainty: Ambiguity and uncertainty go hand-in-hand with the fast-paced world in which we live. Spherical Thinking provides a powerful tool with which to deal with them
Key takeaways include:
- Recognizing our two thinking patterns: Our two ways of thinking comprise our childhood one and our adult one. They are not incompatible!
- The skepticism of others need not influence us: Creative people may encounter rejection from others and may seek to be 'loners'. They don't need to.
- Does creativity ebb and flow: Not only throughout history, but even in our own lives creativity can be a more powerful drive at some times rather than others. During less creative times we still have things we need to do!
3. Practical techniques: that enhance foresight, adaptability, and collaborative insight.
4. Reframing decision-making as a creative, expansive, and innovative process.
4. How to attract creative thinking employees:
We can all think creatively. Seeking creatives for your business is to be commended, but are you really using the human resources you already have?
5. Do creative people need different management & leadership skills? Yes. If your staff are being mentored to think more creatively, your leadership skills may need adjustment. This is equally true if you want your business to appear attractive to creatives.
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